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Property from the Loverdos Collection

Olfert Dapper | Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilanden. Amsterdam, 1688

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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September 21, 11:10 AM GMT

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Property from the Loverdos Collection


Olfert Dapper


Naukeurige beschryving der eilanden, in de Archipel der Middelantsche Zee, in en ontrent dezelve, gelegen: waer onder de voornaemste Cyprus, Rhodus, Kandien, Samos, Scio, Negroponte, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, en andere, in groten getale... Verrijkt met... kaerten en afbeeldingen, etc. Amsterdam: Wolfgangh, Waesbergen, Boom, Someren & Goethals, 1688


Folio (320 x 200mm.), engraved additional title, printed title in red and black with woodcut device, folding general map, 31 engraved plates and maps, 17 double-page, engraved illustrations in the text, contemporary mottled calf, minor damp-staining at head of some leaves, spine slightly worn


A detailed and beautifully-illustrated survey of the Greek archipelago.


LITERATURE:

Cobham-Jeffery, p.14; Cyprus and the Levant, 1:118-119; this edition not in Blackmer, Atabey or Contominas

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